The answer to this question is yes you can for sure hire an automatic vehicle (here in the UK - there is a slight premium to pay vs some other countries where the majority of vehicles produced are automatic) so of course from that perspective of course the manual would always be the way to go.

Re the experience, the minimum across the board with all suppliers is 12 months.

Question:I have recently passed my test ( automatic only ) . First question is it possible to hire from yourselves only with an automatic licence and then how long is the duration of time before I am allowed to hire a car from yourselves.

Another one in today as per the below, some locations (the UK not been one of them) only require the driver to have held their license for 1 days plus, however must must admit those locations are but a few